DoT's directive requires the app to be visible and functional on first use, even as the minister stresses that activation ...

Government-mandated Sanchar Saathi app triggers privacy and surveillance backlash as critics warn of overreach; learn what ...

After CoWIN, Aarogya Sethu, Digilocker it’s the turn of NDA’s “anti-fraud" app Sanchar Saathi’s turn to be skewered.

India's government, amid an uproar over privacy, has revoked an order quietly issued to smartphone makers to pre-install a ...

India’s telecoms ministry has ordered smartphone manufacturers to install a government-run cybersecurity app on all new ...

Apple will resist a new Indian government directive that would require all iPhones sold in the country to ship with a ...

On Wednesday, the Indian telecom ministry said Sanchar Saathi, an anti-theft and cybersecurity protection app, would remain ...

India’s government retreated less than a week after sending a private order to smartphone manufacturers instructing them to ...

The other day ComputerSweden reported that the Indian government had demanded that all mobile phones in the country be ...

The government of India has launched a tracking app to be "preinstalled on all mobile handsets manufactured or imported for use in India." ...

Who controls what you can do on your mobile phone? What happens when your device can only run what the government decides is OK? We are dangerously close to this kind of totalitarian control, thanks ...

The saga of a mandatory government security app which Apple and Google had to preinstall on their phones didn’t ...